England School District superintendent urges termination of nurse; nurse contests evidence and due process

England School District Superintendent Judy Hubbell told the school board on Feb. 12 that her investigation concluded nurse Xaviera Brooks left a student who had used a THC vape unattended several times on Dec. 12, 2025 and failed to report the incident, and she asked the board to accept her recommendation to terminate Brooks’s employment.

Brooks, who represented herself at the hearing, disputed the administration’s account and pressed several procedural and factual arguments. "No student was harmed," she said, and argued that the district provided only edited video clips and not full, unedited footage or all witness statements, which she said deprived her of a fair opportunity to prepare. She also said investigators ignored mitigating factors including lack of coverage, administrator interruptions, parents’ refusal of emergency medical services and her repeated returns to the office.

The superintendent read from a January 23 termination letter that lays out a timeline of campus movements on Dec. 12. That summary said Brooks left a student in the nurse’s office unattended during multiple intervals (listed in the letter as approximately 10:24–10:31 a.m., 10:57–11:11 a.m., 11:12–11:23 a.m. and 11:25–11:37 a.m.), and that video footage showed Brooks in locations away from the office while the student remained inside. "Based on the facts above, I have concluded that you left a student who had used the THC vape and was experiencing a reaction unattended in your office," the letter states, a passage the superintendent reiterated in the hearing.

Administration counsel and district witnesses said the prior written reprimands and the December incident together justified the recommendation, and they defended the process used to assemble the record. Whitney Ford, speaking for the administration, said the district had provided the January notice and that the administration believed the evidence and prior directives supported termination under district policy 8.21, which addresses supervision of students.

Brooks pressed witnesses about whether they personally observed "harm" and emphasized that some of the administration’s assertions came from video review or secondhand reports rather than medical assessments. Brooks also cited Arkansas statutes in arguing that all evidence should have been provided in advance and told the board that some video clips were no longer available because footage sometimes is deleted after two weeks.

Following the presentations, the board voted to convene in executive session to discuss the matter. On the public record the board then recorded motions and a show-of-hands vote indicating support for the superintendent’s recommendation to terminate Brooks’s contract; the record shows a second and "all in favor say aye" on the motion. The board moved on to adjournment procedures afterward.

The hearing record contains disputes about precise timing on the video clips and about whether full unedited footage and all witness statements were supplied in advance. Brooks requested restoration of her employment and said the investigation failed to consider mitigating facts; administrators said prior written warnings and the Dec. 12 timeline supported termination under district policy. The board proceeded to executive session to deliberate further.